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Live blog: Team Ineos sign Giro winner Carapaz; Footage of Roglic crash during yesterday’s TV backout emerge; Shred it like Sagan; Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout; Weekend catch-up + more
All the news from the site and beyond as we start another week
Mon, Sep 02, 2019 18:50
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2 September 2019, 18:50
Here's some stories you may have missed at the weekend
2 September 2019, 18:50
Shred it like Sagan ...
Catch me if you can… Thanks to my friend @Daniel87Oss for his amazing filming skills and @GoPro for the incredibly steady Hero7 Black cameras. @iamspecialized @sportful @ride100percent @osmonutrition pic.twitter.com/AUeU8s8hT4
— Peter Sagan (@petosagan) August 30, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Slam dunk! Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout
Bicycle Kid doesn't care if you're driving a half million dollar car. DON'T TRASH MY STREET, ASSHOLE. pic.twitter.com/tuTmW4ysOs
— Angad (@angadadlakha) August 31, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Best press clipping ever
Wigan. The year is 1899, and never before or since have the words “using her fists in scientific fashion” been used to such delight. pic.twitter.com/7RS2eciAAi
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) September 1, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
It was a long. cold wait for the cable car down to the team buses at the Vuelta yesterday
We imagine some riders didn’t want to move from under the duvet on today’s rest day
Les coureurs attendent le téléphérique dans ce froid. Pluie et orages proches… Courage les gars ! #LaVuelta19 pic.twitter.com/YdcLjj58dW
— Josselin Riou (@josselin_riou) September 1, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Vuelta neutral service moto caused Roglic to crash, footage shows
Ahead of yesterday’s final climb at the Vuelta, a hailstorm caused the TV relay to fail with viewers left looking at images from the finish line camera.
Now, images have emerged of one dramatic event that everyone missed at the time – Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic crashing on the penultimate descent as he came round a bend and found a neutral service moto in his path ….
#LaVuelta2019 @rogla’s dirty crash https://t.co/gBA1KhNDk9
— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
One of the weirder transfer announcements we've seen
Here’s how the French team Arkea-Samsic announced its signing from Movistar of Nairo Quintana, currently leading the Vuelta. It’s up there with some of the weirder ones we’ve seen …
Arkea Samsic announces the arrival of Nairo Quintana pic.twitter.com/rCvKfLyqfi
— Race Radio (@TheRaceRadio) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
This is a bonkers course for the Prologue at the Boels Ladies' Tour in the Netherlands
Astonishingly, this is a 3.8km TT prologue course. A bit "technical" https://t.co/SAmC7efwof
— al (@Al__S) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Some nice shoes for Adam Blythe ....
2 September 2019, 18:50
Team Ineos sign Giro champion Richard Carapaz
Giro d’Italia champion Richard Carapaz is moving from Movistar to Team Ineos on a three-year deal, confirming the Ecuadorian’s widely expected switch.
The 26-year-old said: “I am very excited about joining the team. I feel this is a great opportunity for me to continue my development and growth as a rider, working with a team that continues to go from strength-to-strength, year after year.
“I already know a lot of the riders on the team and I am really looking forward to working everyone at Team Ineos from next season.
“I believe I will fit into this group well and race to my full potential over the coming years. I want to achieve some great triumphs for Team Ineos.”
Team Principal, Sir Dave Brailsford, welcomed the news of Carapaz’s arrival, commenting: “We are very pleased to have signed Richard from the start of the 2020 season. We have been long time admirers of his talents as a bike rider and have followed his development closely over a number of years, as we have always marked him out as a potential member of our team.
“He is obviously a fantastic climber but also has great versatility as he showed at the Giro earlier this year. He is still relatively young and I have no doubt he can develop and improve even further at Team Ineos.”
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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hawkinspeter 10 minutes ago
Regulation isn't required for the illegal e-motorbike issues - they're already illegal to use on the roads/pavements, so it's a question of enforcement. Tougher (or at least some) traffic law enforcement is required, but the police should focus on the biggest problems which to my mind are drivers who are not paying attention or speeding etc.
mdavidford 13 minutes ago
I think that's a crown farthing, isn't it?
chrisonabike 11 hours ago
"All that's required is an to roads policing" - that's a big all... Although no doubt the "idiots just keep coming" aspect does apply: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9lel2wz93o "Man charged after car crashes through bowling alley" - luckily they only skittled over skittles.
chrisonabike 11 hours ago
Almost any change to roads and streets is accompanied by a period of heightened danger, and in the UK "look out for cyclists" will need to be learned... practically. And over the time it takes for cyclists to become a regular feature. OTOH once (if...) good designs are in and frequent enough such that drivers encounter them AND the cyclists on them regularly (another big if) I don't think they should be much more difficult than a footway to deal with. These things are all over NL - don't have the collision stats but they should. (NL isn't perfect but collecting info on the safety of designs to feed back into better designs as required is part of the "sustainable safety" philosophy - if they're really a killer I think they'd be altering these.)
wtjs 12 hours ago
I'm in the happy position of agreeing with everybody here! I've never considered a bike with a stand, yet I'm impressed by the ingenuity and adaptability of this axle. I tow a Yak Bob with a Robert Axle, employing my El Cheapo Vitus gravel bike and I just have to be very careful where I stop. Hedges are generally a dead loss, and I seek walls, telegraph poles and signposts and generally lean the widest part of the Bob against it. One very awkward task is removing the two steel pins which lock the trailer arms onto the special mounting slots on the Robert axle, and when you have one out, the sodding weight in the trailer can twist the whole caboodle and bend the Bob fitting before you can get the other out and unhitch. I doubt if a stand would help with that. You can imagine that this combo is a real pain when you have to get it over the bridge at railway stations, and it nearly resulted in Merseyrail nearly parting me and the trailer on the platform from the bike on the train. It's a long story for another time. Another axle example recently featured on here, with a 12mm front axle bearing the Herculean weight limit of a monster American front rack.
HoarseMann 14 hours ago
This has nothing to do with the type of bike - it's the type of behaviour that's the problem. Banning the sale of such bikes will not curtail the behaviour. They'll just find another type of vehicle and continue to drive dangerously as there's such a lack of enforcement. I'd sooner see them ban the bally. But really, all that's required is an improvement to roads policing.
AidanR 15 hours ago
The EAPC Bill is welcome, but full of holes. What's to stop an overpowered but temporarily limited e-bike being sold and subsequently delimited? This is often a trivial process.
Sredlums 15 hours ago
@KiwiMike Yeah, in my over four decades of riding all over Europe I've never 'been for a ride in the countryside'. That must be it. Or, and I know this is a wild concept, you just accept that I just voiced my personal experiences and never missed a kickstand, like I wrote. Anyway, what's the big horror of laying your bike on its side for the very few occasions where there is nothing to lean your bike against?
mdavidford 16 hours ago
They may have looked, but did they see?
jackcycles 16 hours ago
Ds2025: where they are going wrong is that they are crushing the motorbike rather than the person sat on top of it. If they did the latter this issue would be solved in less than 24 hours.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Team Ineos sign Giro winner Carapaz; Footage of Roglic crash during yesterday’s TV backout emerge; Shred it like Sagan; Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout; Weekend catch-up + more”
Good to see that even back
Good to see that even back then such posts were useless without pictures.
Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm
Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm, WC in a couple of weeks Peter?
Sagan: I am Sagan, I do what I like
kil0ran wrote:
It’s perfectly ok – he had a helmet on…
kil0ran wrote:
If he couldn’t do this he wouldn’t be Sagan, 1. you need the omni-biker-skills to be that good on the road and be World Champ 3 times, 2. Sagan the name, the brand is all about this stuff and that is worth millions. How many people will be buying Sagan bikes in 2024? [Hoy who?]
Hmm, the Roglic crash, was it
Hmm, the Roglic crash, was it more down to the treachorous conditions that happened to be next to the bike? All seem to be past it and then the bike has to brake as he was down. It does look like Valverde(?) and then Roglic pass the bike with plenty of room first.
Sagan has to be Sagan.
Sagan has to be Sagan.
It is the absolute joy of Sagan.
Thank you for the Lamborghini video.
As if the pollution wasn’t bad enough.
I would love to have the
I would love to have the nerve to hand back litter to the person who I’d seen toss it…
brooksby wrote:
I’d love to chuck fag butts back into the driver’s lap, too – preferably while still smouldering.
LastBoyScout wrote:
A mate did exactly that some years back. Chucked the still lit fag end back through the window onto its erstwhile owners lap and said “Sorry you dropped something”
Then again he is 6′ 4″ and when he wants to has a look that you don’t want to mess with him – I would never have gotten away with that
LastBoyScout wrote:
I remember a few years back, being the front seat passenger in a car. My friend who was driving went to toss her cigarette butt out of the window but the wind blew it back in and onto the back seat. Now that was a fun few minutes, trying to find it before we relived that scene in “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”…